Highlights

New Glaucoma Research Fellowship

Moran recently created a glaucoma research pre-residency fellowship, a position that will work closely with the new Alan S. Crandall Center for Glaucoma Innovation.

Directed by Iqbal “Ike” K. Ahmed, MD, FRCSC, the Crandall Center seeks new and improved ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent glaucoma. Moran glaucoma faculty and researchers collaborate in therapeutics, global care, translational research, and neuroprotection-based therapy initiatives.

Inaugural fellow John A. Musser, MD, MPH, is a graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences School of Medicine and College of Public Health. He will be involved in multiple projects with the Center, including opportunities for publications and presentations at national and international meetings.

AAO Partners with Global Ophthalmology Summit

What started as the first global ophthalmology symposium virtually co-hosted by Moran and Emory University in 2020 transitioned into a two-day retreat in Utah in 2021. Global ophthalmology fellows met to discuss key issues with experts and also spent time in Moran’s wet lab and on the HelpMeSee surgical simulator, designed to help surgeons develop their skills in manual small-incision cataract surgery, a technique often used in low-resource parts of the world.

Now, with the mission of “improving eye health and eliminating vision loss through public health advocacy global ophthalmology education, research, collaboration and bridging global eye care stakeholders,” the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) is bringing all ophthalmology subspecialties and any interested eye care professional to the table at a Global Ophthalmology Summit in Park City, Utah, August 12-13, 2022.

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Unique Global Fellowship

The Alcon Foundation supported Moran’s 2021-2022 global fellow, Nathan Gebhard, MD. The foundation works to help people around the world by increasing access to quality eye care, driving eye care provider training and skills-transfer, and strengthening communities.

Gebhard took a one-year leave from his clinical faculty position at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) to focus on skills transfer with Moran partners abroad. The experience will inform his efforts to build an outreach program at OHSU.

Gebhard began his fellowship training at Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology and the Hetauda Community Eye Hospital in Nepal and also joined the Moran outreach team for a teaching and training mission in Mwanza, Tanzania in March 2022.

Nathan Gebhard, MD, center, performs surgery with one of his mentors, surgeon Sunil Thakali at right, in Nepal.